Coleford is a little market town in the west of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, two miles (3.2 kilometres) eastern of the Welsh boundary and near the Wye Valley. It is the administrative centre of the Forest of Dean district. The consolidated population of the two electoral wards in Coleford at the 2011 census was 8,359. Coleford adjusted much more competently to the mine closures of the 1950s than its neighbour Cinderford. Today its prime location in the heart of the Forest makes it popular with pedestrians and bicyclists, as well as the neighborhood council has made moves to motivate more visitors. The large manufacturing facility in the community, originally called Carters, after that Beechams, after that GlaxoSmithKline, is currently owned by the Japanese company Suntory. It is the single production facility for Ribena and also Lucozade. One old building that has survived is the former goods shed for the inoperative train line to Monmouth; it is currently the Coleford GWR Museum. SPP Pumps Ltd, Britain's leading pump maker likewise has their primary UK producing site at Coleford which has over 300 people on site. The factory mainly caters to the Industrial and also overseas firefighting oil and gas markets in addition to the UK municipal water market.